EAPIL blog

Building on the success of the two previous editions (here and here), the third edition of the EAPIL Winter School is currently being organised by the European Association of Private International Law and the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures of the University of Insubria in Como, in cooperation with the Law Faculty of the University […]

The Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan invites young scholars to present the outcome of their doctoral research on any topic within the field of private international law, transnational law or the law of international arbitration, at a dedicated seminar to be held in Milan (the MECSI Seminar). Each MECSI Seminar will revolve […]

An employment dispute between a Greek stewardess and her employer offered the Supreme Court of Greece the opportunity to discuss the interpretation of Articles 20 and 21 of the Brussels I bis Regulation, on jurisdiction over individual employment contracts. The Supreme Court’s ruling on the matter (Ruling No 1453 of 2024) relies heavily on the […]

The T.M.C. Asser Institute has launched a call for abstracts for the panel Emerging Voices in Private International Law, which will take place as part of Adapting Private International Law in an Era of Uncertainty – Asser Institute 60 Years Series Conference, to be held on 24 October 2025 in The Hague. PhD candidates and […]

The Faculty of Law at Humboldt University of Berlin is inviting applications for a Junior Professorship in Private Law and Private International Law, to be filled as of 1 October 2026. The successful candidate will engage in teaching and research across private law and private international law, broadly defined – including international family and succession […]

In response to both global and domestic revelations of serious shortcomings in the intercountry adoption system, the Swedish government launched an official inquiry on the matter in October 2021. The objective was to assess past practices and propose legal reforms as well as other appropriate measures. Titled ‘Sweden’s intercountry adoption activities – Lessons learned and […]

The establishment of an international chamber in the Paris Commercial Court aimed at competing with and divesting judicial business from the London Commercial Court. As the possibility that the United Kingdom would stop participating in the various instruments of judicial cooperation adopted by the European Union appeared to be increasingly credible, the governments of a […]

The latest issue of the new French journal dedicated to international dispute resolution, Perspectives Contentieuses internationales (PCI), has been released. It is an open access publication and can be freely downloaded here. Real Madrid v Le Monde The main focus of the issue is on the case of Real Madrid v. Le Monde (Case C-633/22). […]

Two years have passed since the European Commission published two proposals on the protection of adults in international situations, namely a proposal for a Council Decision that would authorise all EU Member States to become parties of the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the international protection of adults “in the interest of the […]

The relation between EU private international law and arbitration is notoriously complex. While the arbitration exemption of the Brussels I bis Regulation has rendered both much case law as well as legal debate, less attention has been paid to whether and how the EU conflict of law rules in the Rome I Regulation apply to […]

On 3 July 2025, Advocate General Norkus will deliver his opinion on case C-485/24, Locatrans. The request for a preliminary ruling, from the Cour de Cassation, Chambre sociale (Court of Cassation, Social Chamber, France), concerns the interpretation of the Rome Convention of 19 June 1980 on the law applicable to contractual obligations. ES, the defendant […]

A working group composed of French scholars chaired by Professors Mathias Audit and Sylvain Bollée (both Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University) has issued a report on the opportunity of the EU lawmaker to include new provisions in the Brussels I bis Regulation on international commercial arbitration (Towards an EU Law on International Commercial Arbitration?). The […]

On 17 April 2025, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales delivered a judgment in Hipgnosis SFH 1 Ltd v Manilow ([2025] EWCA Civ 486; Sir Julian Flax C, with LJJ Phillips and Snowden agreeing) on the interpretation and effect of an asymmetric jurisdiction clause. Facts The parties had entered into a contract containing […]

The University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the University of Osijek and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, will host a two-day webinar on Cross-Border Protection of Children under the 1996 Hague Child Protection Convention: Practical Perspectives from Contracting States. The webinar will take place online on 30 June and 1 July 2025. The webinar will […]

The Law Quarterly Review has published an interesting article by Richard Garnett and Ying Khai Liew (Professors at Melbourne Law School), titled Trusts Jurisdiction Clauses: An Analysis. The article can be found in (2025) 141 LQR 357-375 and on SSRN. While jurisdiction clauses, or choice of court agreements, are increasingly utilised in trust deeds, the […]

According to Article 4(1) of the Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Denmark on the service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (the ‘Agreement’), Denmark shall not take part in the adoption of opinions by the Committee referred to in Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 2020/1784 on the […]

On 11 and 12 June 2025, the Nordic Group on Private International Law (NGPIL) held a conference in Stockholm. NGPIL is an informal group consisting of lawyers interested in the field of private international law. Founded in Uppsala in 2002, the group enhances the intelligibility of the Scandinavian languages as well as the common legal […]

The XVIII conference of ASADIP, the American Association of Private International Law, will take place from 7 to 9 August 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, under the titled Regional imaginaries, global resonance: Inter-American Private International Law and the world stage. It will bring together 78 panelists from 20 countries. The conference features, among other things, an […]

The special course given by Andrés Rodríguez Benot (Pablo de Olavide University Sevilla) at the Hague Academy of International Law on Le régime économique des mariages et des partenariats enregistrés en droit international privé (The Property Regime of Marriages and Registered Partnerships in Private International Law) has been published in Volume 445 of the Collected […]

On 18 June 2025 the European Commission opened an infringement procedure under Article 258 of the TFEU against Malta (INFR(2025)2100), alleging that Malta is failing to comply with its obligations under the Brussels I bis Regulation with respect to litigation in matters related to gambling. Following the formal notice sent by the Commission, the Maltese […]